WHO WON BRAND NEW FORD RANGER?

MBABANE – The public flocked in numbers to buy raffle draw tickets with the hope of winning a brand new Ford Ranger Wildtrak vehicle.
At E25 a ticket, it appeared to be worth a gamble considering that this vehicle costs around E800 000.

‘Win Me’, screamed the tagline of the charity raffle draw that was under the auspices of Kwazi Foundation, whose founder is former Times SUNDAY reporter Kwazi Masuku. Agents were all over the country’s major towns selling the raffle draw tickets, which were also being sold through MTN Eswatini’s Mobile Money platform by dialling *007*3*12*2#.
White in colour, the vehicle would now and again be taken to various shopping malls and centres around the country where it was put on display for the public to see what was at stake. The car was the most perfect Christmas gift any person could think of, considering that the date of the draw was scheduled for Saturday, December 22, 2018.

Indeed, the draw is reported to have taken place on this date as confirmed to this publication by Masuku himself and the venue was the Manzini bus rank near the police post. However, it appears no media house was invited to this all-important event.
“I am angry at the Times boss, Channel S was there,” he said when asked through WhatsApp why he didn’t invite this publication to cover the event. It should be noted that neither Masuku nor anyone representing Kwazi Foundation contacted this publication about covering the raffle draw. Channel S has also denied having attended the draw. 

Masuku dodges questions
When Masuku was asked who he had contacted at the Times of Swaziland, he avoided answering the question by claiming that he was driving and was in Maputo, presumably Mozambique. This is despite some of his friends telling this publication that he was in Durban, South Africa. When Masuku was asked who had won the car, he promised to provide all the information, including pictures, upon returning to the country on Friday.

On Friday, the Times SUNDAY made a follow-up on Masuku about the identity of the person who won the vehicle and whether the car had been handed over to that person.
He was also informed that Channel S had also denied having covered the event. Masuku’s response was to ask this reporter if he was pursuing a story regarding the draw, and the answer was ‘yes’.

He then wondered if ‘we now have that kind of a strained relationship former colleague’ to which the response was ‘not exactly’. He responded with an emoji of a thinking face, which is a yellow face with furrowed eyebrows looking upwards with thumb and index finger resting on its chin.

It is intended to show a person pondering or deep in thought and is often used to question or scorn something or someone, as if saying ‘Hmm, I don’t know about that’. 
The tone, however, varies, including earnest, playful, puzzled, skeptical, and mocking. After the emoji, Masuku did not answer any questions that were sent to him even though two blue ticks indicated he had read them and was sometimes found to be ‘online’.

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